Coroner confirms body found in landfill was Mount Gilead teen

BUCYRUS - Skylar Bentley has been positively identified as the person whose body was found Tuesday in the Crawford County Landfill.

Mount Gilead Police Chief Brian Zerman said the Lucas County Coroner's Office gave his office the news Thursday evening.

"They still don’t know a cause of death," Zerman said.

According to the website of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, Skylar Bentley, 14, had been missing from his home in Mount Gilead since Sunday.

Tammy Kiss, who identified herself as Skylar's aunt, said Mount Gilead police officers told the family the missing teen was seen on a surveillance video jumping into a dumpster in early morning hours, but was not seen climbing out before it was collected by a trash truck later that morning.

Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies — including the Crawford and Morrow county sheriff's offices, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the Galion Police Department — searched the landfill throughout the day Tuesday.